Joseph Forte

Duke’s Shane Battier and North Carolina’s Joseph Forte shared 2001 ACC basketball player of the year honors as media balloting deadlocked at 32 votes each. If ever another season was going to produce such an improbable tie, it’s this one. Indeed, in 30 years of covering the conference I can’t recall a group of candidates as large and cluttered. Last year, for example, North Carolina’s Tyler Zeller, Harrison Barnes and John Henson, plus Virginia’s Mike Scott, received votes. But Zeller was the landslide winner with 45 to Scott’s 14, Barnes’ two and Henson’s one. As Sunday’s voting deadline and this weekend’s...

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Duke’s Shane Battier and North Carolina’s Joseph Forte shared 2001 ACC basketball player of the year honors as media balloting deadlocked at 32 votes each. If ever another season was going to produce such an improbable tie, it’s this one.
Indeed, in 30...